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Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 30, 2022
The Armory Show at the Javiatz Center, September 8-11
A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. With over 240 galleries from 30 countries, the 2022 edition features solo exhibitions of international artists at 16 galleries; FOCUS: Landscape Undone, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, presenting artists … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 16, 2020
Typographics: A Design Festival for People Who Use Type—the marquee event presented by Type@Cooper—goes on as scheduled, but
online for the first time in its six-year run. Speakers include Paula Scher (Pentagram), Julian Alexander (Slang, Inc.), Cybele Grandjean (Area of Practice), Tre Seals (Vocal Type Co.), Javier
Viramontes (format.xyz), Nontsikelelo Mutiti (Black Chalk & Co), and Silas Munro (Poly-Mode), among others. The Online … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 11, 2010
Last Friday, on my way to an opening in NoHo, I stopped to visit artist/illustrator and frequent DART contributor Fernanda Cohen on the job. She had mentioned a while back that she was doing a
mural project for a downtown restaurant and I wanted to se what was up. When I arrived at the dark entrance, her studio assistant, Manolo M., led me to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 25, 2013
Photographers: If your 90% perspiration could use a 10% boost of inspiration, the menu of workshops at Photoville this weekend might be just what’s wanted. Starting
Thursday, September 26, Luminance/Photoshelter offers a series of 45-minute talks featuring industry experts and top photographers on subjects as divers as copyright protection; the photo shoot;
getting your work into a gallery; publishing your photobook; and so much more. That’s just the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 10, 2015
A few years ago I ran out of shelf space. It was critical mass crisis: what could possibly be discarded from my photo-and-art-book library? I had to make room along the tallest shelves, a 5.5-foot
run of which was filled with issues of Aperture magazine. I bit the bullet. I still feel the pain. But now the loss has been remedied through the recently … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 20, 2024
Continuing: Chuck Close | Portraits of Artists at Pace Prints
Chuck Close (1940–2021) was a remarkably versatile and creative printmaker who utilized a wide range of techniques to render images of himself and his friends. In addition to his self portraits, the exhibition presents images in a variety of printing techniques that portray Close’s friends and fellow artists John Chamberlain, Philip Glass, Lyle … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 28, 2009
The Fall DART List for photography in New York will hit your inbox next week. Unlike last September, when more than 40 photo shows opened on the first Thursday of the month, this
year's offerings are a little more spread out - giving gallery hoppers a chance to pack more into their busy evenings. But for now, here's a select list of upcoming museum … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 5, 2023
Closing January 7: Regarding Kimber at Cheim & Read
Kimber Smith (1922-1981) had his first exhibition in New York in 1951, where his work was paired with Joan Mitchell’s. Smith’s effortless style [above] anticipates the work of influential artists such as Mary Heilmann, Richard Aldrich, and Joe Bradley
The first exhibition of his works in NYC since 2011 was held at Cheim & Read's UES … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 8, 2014
This week Micheal McLaughlin, a globe-trotting editorial and advertising photographer based in Brooklyn, wrote to say that a reception for his show, Unguided Tour,
will be held tomorrow tonight. Presented by his alma mater, the Moses Brown School, in Providence, Rhode Island, the exhibition continues at the Krause Gallery through May 11. In a rapid
flurry of emails, Micheal, who is a DART reader, replied to this Q&A. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 20, 2015
The Detroit Museum of Art, which narrowly escaped having treasures from its collections thrown on the auction block to help save the city from its financial crisis last year, is now enjoying a
moment in the sun. The current exhibition, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit, could not have come at a better moment. Timed exhibition tickets for this proclaimed
blockbuster are selling out, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 19, 2010
Ink in this Sunday, May 23rd, for an afternoon of art and festivities on the Lower East Side. The Rema Hort Mann 15th Annual Art Crawl is on - and once again, it will bring an
insider view of this eclectic and expanding art 'hood. Savvy tour guides, including painters Jules de Balincourt and Christopher Mir, will introduce small
groups to new cutting-edge contemporary … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 5, 2016
Talk / Discussion / Performance Wednesday, January 6
Gallery Walkthrough with Wm. Hunt | Hunt's Three Ring Circus, 5:15 pm. 1235 Ave of the Americas Gallery/UBS Building, between 51st-52nd Streets, NY, NY. Also on Friday,
January 8 at 10 am. Info. Thursday, January 7 Rochelle Feinstein Book Party, 6-8 pm. On Stellar Rays, 1 Rivington Street, NY, NY. Bartholomew Ryan on "Jim Shaw: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 16, 2012
Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Vegetable
Weapon-Mutton Hot Pot/Beijing, 2002, Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo. This just in from United Photo
Industries: There's a New Town in Town. Wednesday, May 16 Book signing and reception, 5:30-7:30 pm. Henly on Safari | Julie Muszynski. Rizzoli
Bookstore, 31 West 57th Street, NY, NY. Information. Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Under the Influence | The Art
of Power … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday August 3, 2009
Unlike Wall Street, the art market is booming. So reports Souren Melikian in the July 31st edition of The
International Herald Tribune. If that's true, then why are so many people on the front lines - art dealers, auction houses and artists - so worried? The substance of Melikian's piece,
which is an update on a story he wrote in The New York … Read the full Story >>
By Wednesday August 7, 2013
When I daydream about summer on the beach vivid memories spent with friends, lovers or often alone appear. I imagine the
sunshine against my skin, the smell of the ocean and the sound of waves crashing. I love standing at the point were the waves disappear into the
sand-there I write my hopes and my sorrows, allowing the ocean to carry them away. Summer Sorrow is … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 8, 2007
Since October 2003, Nina Berman has been making portraits of American soldiers who were wounded in the Iraq War. The series has been
published in book form and is now on view at Jen Bekman, 6 Spring Street, NYC. The opening reception is tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. A Purple Heart is the badge of honor given to
soldiers for their wounds, and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 3, 2021
Continuing through November 6th: Riccardo Veccchio | The 31 Degree Project, Open Studio
31 Degrees project gives visibility to environmental injustice through disparities in tree coverage in prosperous or marginalized neighborhoods in NYC, and sets out to work with city agencies, organizations and communities to plant trees in neighborhoods that need them most.
Join Riccardo for the launch of this public, multi-site mapping … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 11, 2020
"Pimp Your Bookcases" continues with Michael Foley, who has kept busy getting the vote out while his Lower East Side gallery is temporarily closed.
Peggy Roalf: Just guessing that you might have more than one library: If so, how do they differ? Where are they located? And how do you manage your collection?
Michael Foley: You are correct, Peggy! My man stash is in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 21, 2023
Best known to the general public for his New Yorker covers, artist Peter de Sève has done the public a favor by cleaning out his studio and making many of his originals available. Opening tonight at Philippe Labaune Gallery is a full-on retrospective of his works on paper. The selection on view spans de Sève's career, “providing clear insight into an illustrator who '’draws like a god'’, as Françoise … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 15, 2013
The prestigious W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant is given each year to honor the legacy of a photographer whose passionate involvement with seeking the truth set an almost impossibly
high bar for what photography can be. The Smith Fund websites states, Gene Smith was a loner, a driving and driven man, who bucked the system of which he was a part. Some say … Read the full Story >>
